Bio
- Debut
- 1951
Bio
- Debut
- 1951
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 504
- W
- 55
- L
- 61
- ERA
- 4.12
- IP
- 1032.0
- K
- 574
- BB
- 590
- WHIP
- 1.52
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | CHC | 31 | 4 | 9 | 5.46 | 127.0 | 39 | 90 | 1.69 |
| 1952 | CHC | 33 | 4 | 11 | 4.37 | 156.2 | 73 | 93 | 1.58 |
| 1953 | CHC | 49 | 8 | 7 | 5.16 | 148.1 | 76 | 84 | 1.69 |
| 1954 | CHC | 15 | 0 | 2 | 6.14 | 22.0 | 16 | 15 | 1.73 |
| 1956 | CHC | 61 | 9 | 8 | 3.58 | 110.2 | 74 | 78 | 1.56 |
| 1957 | CHC | 67 | 5 | 7 | 3.77 | 93.0 | 51 | 51 | 1.34 |
| 1958 |  CHC/CIN/CHW | 42 | 3 | 5 | 4.31 | 56.1 | 53 | 43 | 1.88 |
| 1959 | CHW | 60 | 9 | 2 | 2.89 | 93.1 | 63 | 42 | 1.23 |
| 1960 | CHW | 45 | 2 | 3 | 3.88 | 67.1 | 39 | 34 | 1.40 |
| 1961 | CHW | 59 | 7 | 5 | 2.76 | 101.0 | 50 | 35 | 1.21 |
| 1962 | CHW | 42 | 4 | 2 | 3.04 | 56.1 | 40 | 25 | 1.47 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 3
- W
- 0
- L
- 0
- ERA
- 0.00
- IP
- 3.0
- K
- 3
- BB
- 1
- WHIP
- 1.00
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 10
- SHO
- 1
- K/9
- 5.0
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | CHC | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | CHC | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | CHC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | CHC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | CHC/CIN/CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962 | CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Turk Lown's career stats?
Turk Lown played 11 seasons for the Cubs and the White Sox. He had 55 wins and 574 strikeouts with a 4.12 ERA over 1,032.0 innings. His best season was 1956: 9 wins, a 3.58 ERA and 74 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
11 seasons, 1 postseason, 1951 to 1962
All-time career rank
- 257th in saves (73)
Among the 8,948 MLB players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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